Boston Casualty: Ten Stories & Variations

By David Taylor Johannesen

Ten compelling stories transport the reader from Boston to Palm Springs, California, and Utah to Scotland, ever searching for love and lasting devotion. In Four Twins and a Wedding Dress, the complications of multiple marriages and shifting romances are explored with surprise and gratification. Blaine and Blaine traces the loves and lives of a Massachusetts prep school boy and a girl from an Utah ranching family. Boston Casualty explores a school reunion fraught with hope and discovery. Scotland Hotel portrays Solomon’s ancestral pilgrimage leading him into a supernatural trek through hills of lavender and lochs as a Border collie.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796028874

David Taylor Johannesen

About the Author David Taylor Johannesen was born in Salt Lake City and grew up in Boston. His earlier published literary works are: Tales of Love and Valor, Two Novellas (2018) Falcons and Seagulls, a Utah Tale (2015) Last One Close the Gate, Selected Stories (2012) Vespers East & West, Selected Poems (2011)* *Written at Oxford, 1996 Johannesen lives in Los Angeles with his life Linda and border collie Fallon. His ancestry is Scottish and Norwegian. He was educated at University of Pennsylvania, New York University and Oxford University, U.K. Johannesen has two children: a son, Christian, a media executive in New York City; and a daughter, Helen, a restaurateur and sommelier in Los Angeles.

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